It is hard to guess what a Southern little yellow-eared bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Southern little yellow-eared bat (Vampyressa pusilla) on average weights 8 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Southern little yellow-eared bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Vampyressa). It is usually born with about 2 grams (0 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 5.3 cm (0′ 3″). Normally, Southern little yellow-eared bats can have babies 2 times a year.
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
The southern little yellow-eared bat (Vampyressa pusilla) is a frugivorous bat species from South America. It is found in Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay.
Animals of the same family as a Southern little yellow-eared bat
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Broad-toothed tailless bat with a weight of 15 grams
- White-winged vampire bat with a weight of 36 grams
- Little big-eyed bat with a weight of 13 grams
- Visored bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Micronycteris nicefori with a weight of 8 grams
- White-lined broad-nosed bat with a weight of 24 grams
- Yellow-throated big-eared bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Hairy big-eyed bat with a weight of 23 grams
- Big-eared woolly bat with a weight of 78 grams
- Davis’s round-eared bat with a weight of 20 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Southern little yellow-eared bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Vampyressa pusilla:
- Orange leaf-nosed bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Long-legged bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Geata mouse shrew bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Bechstein’s bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Sind bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Thick-eared bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Gambian slit-faced bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Darling’s horseshoe bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Mexican long-tailed shrew bringing 7 grams to the scale
- São Tomé free-tailed bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Southern little yellow-eared bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Southern little yellow-eared bat:
- Red fruit bat with a size of 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Pacific sheath-tailed bat with a size of 4.7 cm (0′ 2″)
- Balochistan gerbil with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Mexican small-eared shrew with a size of 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Pygmy fruit-eating bat with a size of 5.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Preble’s shrew with a size of 5.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Allen’s big-eared bat with a size of 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Whitaker’s shrew with a size of 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Grasse’s shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lesser mouse-tailed bat with a size of 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)